<b> <c c="#a00149">Yona</c> </b> Yavāna Yonakā<br>A country and its people. The name is probably the Pāḷi equivalent for Ionians, the Baktrian Greeks. The Yonas are mentioned with the Kambojas in the Assalāyana Sutta <c c="#3b6bd3">MN.ii.149</c> as places in which there were only two classes of people, masters and slaves, and the master could become a slave or vice versa.<br> <br>Location: <iref href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/37.45,26.5">37.45,26.5</iref> (Precision: 2, Type: region)<br> </deftext>
(nt, nt) Bactria; part of the Greek empire; modern day Afghanistan